Great Teacher Quotes - Page 5

• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

  Ricky Martin

  Teacher, Life Is Like, Lessons

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2012

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• Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

  Todd Whitaker

  Teacher, Teaching, Expectations

  Douglas J. Fiore, Todd Whitaker (2005). “Six Types of Teachers: Recruiting, Retaining, and Mentoring the Best”, p.163, Eye On Education

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• Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

  Jennifer James

  Teacher, Pain, Way

  Jennifer James (1987). “Windows”, Newmarket Press

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• The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Life Learning, Reason

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Support, Needs

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2012

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• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Successful, Lines

  Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 13, 2012.

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• A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

  Hosur Narasimhaiah

  Teacher, School, Average

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• Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

  Susan Cheever

  Dog, Teacher, Home

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• Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

  Lynsay Sands

  Teacher, Time, Children

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• Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Teacher, Mistake, Lessons

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  Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Teacher, Rewards

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.132, Vintage

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• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Teacher, Money

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.298

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Alfred Adler

  Teacher, Fighting, Principles

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• What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Teacher, Parent, Vision

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• We need to invest in very different ways. Get the students the support they need, get them the best principals, get them the great teachers, and I promise you those students would do extraordinarily well. I have seen it all my life.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Support, Promise

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• All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Teacher, Self, Over You

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.148, Hay House, Inc

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• Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

  Laozi

  Apology, Done, Body

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the bar, huge amount of progress. Let's continue that.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, School, Effort

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• I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, School, Hands

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more with a great teacher named David Noon, who I've been in contact with quite a bit in recent years.

  Jon Gordon

  Teacher, Art, Years

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• Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

  Sherman Alexie

  Teacher, Book, School

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• Part of being a great restaurant chef is having an ability to bring all those people together, rather like a captain on a rugby field or a coach. It's also being a great teacher, because I'm only one person in a kitchen of 10 and I need to be able to bring all those people together and to teach them. I need to be able to communicate my thoughts and my process to them.

  Paul Rankin

  Teacher, People, Kitchen

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .

  John Welwood

  Teacher, Self, Discipline

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• He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

  Pete Carroll

  Teacher, Player, Nfl

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